deport

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔːt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoət/

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deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

These illegal immigrants were being deported to Mexico by American authorities

1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
   • December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell:

     Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
   • 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban:

     Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.

   • 02/12/2021, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP:

     Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

• deportable
• deportee
• deporter
• self-deport
• undeported

• de trop, ported, red top, red-top, redtop, troped

deport m (plural deports)

1. sport

   Synonym: esport

• desport

deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • c. 1200, Unknown author, Aucassin et Nicolette:

     Qui vauroit bons vers oïr
     del deport du viel antif

     Who would like to hear a few good lines
     Of amusement from the old storyteller

• → Catalan: deport
• → Middle English: disport, disporte
  • ⇒ Middle English: sport, spoort, sporte
    • English: sport (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: sport
• → Portuguese: desporto, desporte
• → Spanish: deporto

deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans

     Que d'aqui mou deportz e chans

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